Joshua Rothkopf is film editor of the Los Angeles Times. He most recently served as senior movies editor at Entertainment Weekly. Before then, Rothkopf spent 16 years at Time Out New York, where he was film editor and senior film critic. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Sight and Sound, Empire, Rolling Stone and In These Times, where he was chief film critic from 1999 to 2003.
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Times columnist Glenn Whipp and film editor Joshua Rothkopf break down the winners and less fortunate in this year’s Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. vote.
Directed by Justin Kurzel and co-starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in revelatory turns, the film chronicles the rise of a hate group in the Pacific Northwest.
Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, writer-director Payal Kapadia’s intimate spell of a movie shows a complex side of India that many urbanites will relate with.
Also this week: Writer-director Sean Baker returns with his Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,” and the Micheaux Film Festival lands in Culver City.
The third installment of the no-budget horror series, proudly violent and loaded with slick endurance tests, is finding mainstream success by dispensing with tasteful restraint.
In Screen Gab no. 151, we fill up your streaming queue for the first weekend of October and catch up with hip hop artist and now TV star Big Freedia.
Among the titles that have our writing staff stoked: “Gladiator II,” “Wicked,” “Joker: Folie à Deux,” “Blitz,” “Anora,” “We Live in Time” and “The Apprentice.”
After spending a Labor Day weekend in the Colorado Rockies watching movies, we leave Telluride with several high points: bold documentaries and daring narratives.
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